User talk:Slakr/Archive 18

Seamus (dog)

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{{editprotected}} Several days ago, you put the Seamus (dog) page under full protection because of severe edit disputes. Based on the discussions on the Talk:Seamus (dog) page, it looks like some issues have been resolved, and some have not. I am requesting the following actions if possible.

1. Move Seamus (dog) to Seamus incident or Seamus dog incident. Based on the discussion under Requestion move section, just about everyone has reached a consensus that current name needs to changes, and of the suggestions, these seems to have no objections. Titles containing the words "Mitt Romney" or "controversy" were also popular, but there were some concerns about BLP violations with these titles.

2. Move the sentence about Gail Collins in the "Supplementary information" section to the "Political commentary" section, and retitle "Supplementary information" as "Later life". Based on the Supplementary information section, everyone agrees that "supplementary information" is an inappropriate title for an article section.

3. Extend article protection for a few more days. I'm not sure of Wikipedia's policies on timeframes for full protection, but based I what I saw over the weekend on the talk page for this article, I think that some of the other edit disputes could be resolved with a few more days of talking.

Thank you. HHIAdm (talk) 21:09, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The {{editprotected}} template is for the article's talk page—not the protecting administrator's talk page. I'd suggest you copy this to the article's talk page—not here—so that you can establish that these changes actually have consensus. Any further discussion should take place there. --slakr^\ talk / 22:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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3RRN

This is inaccurate -- there were four clear reverts, including one after the warning I gave. At a minimum a warning is in order. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 06:26, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Beyond seeking a do-over on his or her trumped-up and frivolous (and near instantaneous, if you look he or she makes an habit of them) 3RR complaint here, the individual is edit-warring and mocking me as "darling" at the article. When the individual repetitively uses words like "undoubtedly a revert" and "clear reverts" and tells you what "is in order" and what is not, I trust you to look to the record rather than these words. Colton Cosmic (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

user wakwakwiki or Soufray

Hello,

The user uses the both names to vandalize the articles and my talk page. I've noticed him so many times but he always want what is in his mind not the truth. Will you please check his log? I've got tired from his bad actions. thanks in a dvance --H•f ^{Talk to me} 08:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Response to your comment at my talk page

I'll listen to your words, and I respect your position. But I don't change what I said. Three against one is not a consensus. I don't think I've been disruptive editing," unless you take out the part about "improving the article and building the encyclopedia" (I say I've done both) and "degrading its reliability" (I say I've improved it); well wait I say virtually none of that applies to anything I've done, except maybe for chatty-chat comments like this, so I guess I'll take that risk you're talking about, until then I'll keep going like I've been. Colton Cosmic (talk) 21:55, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out [1] that the contributing editor breakout on the position of the edit you appeared to caution me for is actually two-two. (I made no attempt or contact to influence him or her on the edit.) If you see fit, please acknowledge this at my talkpage. Colton Cosmic (talk) 21:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your intervention at USACK. The harassment by IP editors on my talk page has stopped as a result. Perhaps those individuals have wised up and realized they can't post material at will in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. --Drm310 (talk) 02:35, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jason James Scott

Thanks for the note; I was hoping that a reply would come, but it looks like enough time passed before you "closed" it that none was forthcoming. Nyttend (talk) 11:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot is needed on ar.wiki

Hello! I'm a bureaucrat on ar.wiki,I would like to know more about SineBot's requirement to function on ar.wiki/other wikis, also I believe that the same concept of tracing the unsigned edits can be achieved by using the abuse filter extension to give a warning message before saving the page, I'm interested to know which method would be more feasible, lighter and flexible and your recommendation, best regards.--Antime •(Talk) 20:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sinebot

Hello, Do you know if or when you will be releasing Sinebot's source code? THX, Ax1om77 07:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple Edit Wars

About 5 1/2 hours after your "broad warning," MonkeyKingBar carried on one of the edit wars: [2]. 99.224.54.167 (talk) 14:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And he's still at it: [3]. I'm pretty sure MonkeyKingBar is GoldDragon, who was banned for this sort of behaviour. See [4]. 99.224.54.167 (talk) 12:32, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Various Subarus

Hello Slakr - thanks for intervening in the giant argument. I am (naturally) sorry to see my rollback rights reverted; due to intermittent internet issues I wasn't able to explain myself much after filing the initial report. I reverted the Subaru Outback article three times (all on May 13, 2:52, 14:28, and 14:34) and then noticed that MarcusHookPa (who began the chain of reverts) created obvious POV forks at Subaru Legacy Outback and Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. I was under the impression that such blatant violations of policy were ok to simply rollback, I apologize if that is not the case.

The only thing I really regret reverting is the Baja, a move which I didn't even support - I had assumed that there was consensus, and very much regret not having checked it closer first. In any case, I just wanted to explain my thought process.

What I would like from you is a single place to discuss the best way to organize these various articles. We could leave bot messages on the various talkpages and one on the automotive project talkpage. Best regards, ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 15:43, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and one more question: MonkeyKingBar deleted all of the S8 content from Audi A8. Since Audi S8 is currently a blocked stub, is it ok for me to restore the S8 material to A8 since the S8 is otherwise "in limbo"? ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 15:53, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If an edit war spans multiple pages, typically people open a request for comment (RFC) on the highest-traffic/highest-edit-warred page, and then add a "Head's up," "FYI," or "RFC at [[Talk:TheOtherTalkPage#TheActualRFC]]" sections to the talk pages of disputed pages, with a small blurb pointing anyone interested to the main one (e.g., "There's an RFC over at (whereever) over whether (something should be one way or this other way. Feel free to discuss there."). Check out some of the open RFCs for examples. --slakr^\ talk / 06:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I definitely would have. I figured that since one single editor had been reverted by three other editors, he'd be blocked before soon. Didn't quite realize that reverting his POV:FORKS would (apparently) count as reverting the same edit until I filed the report. ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 07:57, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest, then, fully understanding the underlying policies to make sure you're following them before accusing others of violating them. Furthermore, I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but there was more than one person in opposition on both sides of the dispute. Had it truly only been one, and three people reverted that person, I would have been more inclined to exclusively block the offending editor. --slakr^\ talk / 14:51, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and I'm sorry. On the other hand, by the time I filed the report (19:39 May 13) there was only one opposing editor as far as I could (and can) tell - MonkeyKingBar made his first edit to Subaru Outback on May 15, 28 hours later. So, yes, at the time there was only the one opposing editor. While I did two more reverts, one was of unrelated content at Subaru Baja (which I quickly regretted, I had mistakenly assumed that there was consensus) and the other was at the pov fork at Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. I hope that this information might do something to change matters. ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 16:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for your help in quelling the disruptive editing on various automobile-related articles! I know that you set yourself up for a lot of work in appointing yourself watchperson of the various edit wars. Your efforts are much appreciated! Ebikeguy (talk) 16:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Appeal on Edit Warring noticeboard notice

Hello, you recently responded to a notice I put up for Good Crazy [5]. I would like to appeal your decision. The IP whom I reported has increasingly become highly uncivil after the protection was placed. Please these two comments from Talk:Good Crazy [6] [7]. From their comments, it is clear they do not realize that their edit warring has at least partially contributed to the protection of the page. There is no doubt that they have learned zilch about how their behavior was unacceptable by just protecting the page. I am fine with the page itself being full-protect, but I would please ask that you also consider putting a range-block on this IP to attempt to discipline this user. Thanks. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 22:57, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We don't use blocks punitively. Additionally, I have zero interest, comment, or care about whether the edit in question is included or not, and whatever version was the latest when I protected it is in no way an endorsement of the version of the page it was on. I've adjusted the protection tag on the page to reflect this accordingly. The level of protection primarily reflects the amount of involvement by non-anonymous versus registered users, the nature of that involvement, and the lack of (or clear) consensus for/against edits in question. When numerous editors are edit warring, the likelihood of full protection increases. As far as civility goes, feel free to open a thread at Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance if you feel there's a civility issue or WP:ANI for truly serious/blatantly problematic issues. --slakr^\ talk / 06:57, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions. SwisterTwister talk 04:17, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

A discussion about SineBot that has popped up on Talk:Abraham Lincoln might interest you. Shearonink (talk) 00:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Meh... I don't really need to defend the millions of edits my bot has made over the last 5 years. If people are surprised that newbies post inappropriate threads to the talk page of as high of a traffic page as Abraham Lincoln, and they find that reverting two revisions at once is too hard/complex of a process, and if they're silly enough to not actually research how frequently it happens on the talk page/check how often the bot ignores it, and they don't actually check Special:Contributions/SineBot... *takes a breath* then nothing I post is gonna convince them otherwise. :P --slakr^\ talk / 01:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Meh-meh, okey-dokey. Carry on, Shearonink (talk) 01:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion in question is now here -- Talk:Abraham_Lincoln/Archive_25#Blocking_SineBot 74.192.84.101 (talk) 20:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Roseville, NSW

Hi. I saw your entry at User_talk:OSX about the edit warring. The following example is a relatively trivial one, but OSX has consistently deleted from Roseville, New South Wales an image of a cottage called Ambleside, which is relevant to and supported by the text, while always replacing it with excessive pix of Federation cottages. He hasn't been very responsive to debate. Not the most important issue at Wiki, but I leave it with you in case you have nothing better to do.

Sardaka (talk) 09:22, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article: Kazantip

Hi, you declined the request to protect the page Kazantip and told that "prior protection just expired". Does it mean it was protected before? I was checking that page since last autumn and it wasn't protected. Would you please explain me the reason further? Thanks in advance and best regards, --Xapmc (talk) 23:39, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

this --slakr^\ talk / 23:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the quick answer. Maybe I should mention that both events will take part simultaneously at the beginning of August, so I suppose that Portugal "kazantip" will by much more active in the next two months. The same German page is protected for indefinite period of time for the same reason as that company tried to sabotage it. Could you kindly explain the reason why the external links cannot be protected? People who want to make the article better still can work on it, only their changes must be confirmed. Or am I getting it wrong? Thanks again, --Xapmc (talk) 00:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

helpme test

{{helpme}} Ignore this. I don't actually need help; I'll deactivate in a few moments. --slakr^\ talk / 17:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Duly ignored - posting only to give you an idea of response time, if that helps... JohnCD (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ignored. AndrewN ^talk 17:53, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, sorry, guys, was testing to see if the bot regularly echoed to the chan without prompting. --slakr^\ talk / 17:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great response time, though :D --slakr^\ talk / 17:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot

Hi, I (and some other sysops on svwiki) are stalked and harassed on enwiki by some weird person on my user page and on my talk page. It’s always unsigned and written in Swedish and your bot has the awkward habit to sign the insults. Is it possible to teach the bot only to take care of unsigned messages in English? Rex Sueciæ ✎ 19:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warriors

I don't know if this violates the warning, but I feel that I ought to tell you about it. Thanks, ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 22:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Subst for unsigned/dated templates

Would you consider adding the functionality to SineBot automatically add subst: to the use of Template:Unsigned, Template:UnsignedIP, Template:Unsigned2, Template:UnsignedIP2 & Template:Undated when using the normal transclusion markup? I'd offer to help code a new bot which did this itself, but I'm new to wikibots (though if you'd guide me through the process then I'd be happy to give it a go!) There are currently huge backlogs for each template which could be used as a list for the bot to work from. Cheers. --xensyria^T 14:51, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you add the templates to Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted (possibly by adding |auto=yes to {{subst only}} in each template's documentation), and convince an admin to add the templates to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force, AnomieBOT will take care of substing them. Anomie ⚔ 17:03, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What Anomie said. Since there are already bots that handle this, I'd like to avoid scope creeping. Good idea though =) --slakr^\ talk / 21:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) I've realised I don't have the privileges to make the changes yet, so I've put it up here if you'd like to take a look, and I'll ask a few other relevant admins too. --xensyria^T 19:23, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

for responding to my request at WP:RPP. I really was at a loss for how else to deal with the situation. If the other party refuses to discuss their edits and has an IP that shifts over time, it's very awkward. Rivertorch (talk) 05:08, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012-13 NBA season by team

Why Is There no template For The 2012-13 NBA season yet174.70.170.16 (talk) 02:45, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to protect a page and Request to protect the Characters of Kingdom Hearts page

Slakr, I would like if you show me how to protect a page on a wikia and can i try it on the Characters of Kingdom Hearts with the page protection. Can you show me how?--DisneyGirlovestacos95 (talk) 02:01, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

About the SineBot

I LOVE the humor and coincidences you used when creating SineBot

CosineBot is cool as well, in an antagonizing way.

67.163.104.111 (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot acting up

[8] and [9] are completely wrong. There's something the bot seems not to be able to handle. __meco (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed — example. Bot should now correctly skip the oldest of any back-to-back unsigned posts. The Right™ way of doing this would be to sign both, but it's on the back burner until I get around to it. --slakr^\ talk / 03:17, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciated. __meco (talk) 08:17, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hi how do put

a wabsit Joshua melton singter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshmel (talk • contribs) 22:01, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note

Hello, If you have a time, could you please have a look at user:banimustafa contributions, he just want to delete info from articles. Look here please. He has a history of vandalisim; user:Wakwakwiki is a banned[10] sockpuppet of Banimustafa,[11] who has his own history of blocks[12] user:soufray is a banned souckpuppet of Banimustafa also. user:jerashray user:strickwikieditor I've notice him several times, and I don't want to enter with an edit war with him. could you please, take an action for that. Thank you very much.--HF ► 14:49, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing edit summary

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This is a reply to this archived discussion.

You missed my point. I'm talking about the line "Added {{tilde}} note.". Your bot used this line here. As said I find this line very confusing. It looks like your bot tried to use a template in the edit summary. Even without the brackets this line is completely useless for the most likely new and unexperienced users. Please change it to something like "Please sign your posts.".

If you are sick of people complaining about your bot, here is a hint: Slow the bot down a lot. Currently it's impossible for a user to learn from it's mistakes and fix them itself. The bot blames the user for being a moron within seconds. Even if a user notes his mistake and tries to add the missing signature he will run into a conflict (or worse) because of the bot. It's like you are in a shop looking at the products with the manager right in your neck, rearranging everything you touched. This drives me crazy. --TMg 16:39, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I actually understood your point perfectly, hence my reply, "Templates actually never expand in edit summaries—only wikilinks do." Put another way, it's not a bug; it's expected behavior. Furthermore, an edit summary is a description of what changes were made to a page. "Added {{tilde}} note" is a precise description of the change that were made to a user's talk page. An edit summary of, "Please sign your posts," however, is not a description of the change that was made to the user's talk page.

Your other two points have already been addressed:

It already has a delay of about a minute before applying signatures, which is intentionally bypassed on high-priority/frequently edited pages (in order to avoid edit conflicts). So, even if a user has neglected to use the Show Preview or Show Changes buttons before actually committing their edits, they still have about a minute to go back and edit it to add their signature under normal circumstances. This delay will eventually automatically scale with the average recent activity of the page (e.g., a page averaging only an edit a week will have a longer delay than one averaging edits every few minutes), but this isn't set in stone, will require plenty of testing, and hasn't been implemented yet; no, there isn't an ETA. As if this wasn't enough, when it comes to established editors (>800 edits), the bot will only sign their posts if they explicitly opt in to autosigning.
{{tilde}} notes are only added on the third unsigned comment. Taken in concert with the aforementioned delay, the allegation that the "bot blames the user for being a moron within seconds" is woefully inaccurate.

On the subject of things that drive people crazy, I highly suggest that you first familiarize yourself with how the bot actually works before telling me that it works a completely different way than it does. Doing so will save both of us lots of time in the future. Thanks.

--slakr^\ talk / 21:34, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see how your bot works and it is way to fast and uses confusing edit summaries. What else should I say? Either I'm to stupid to explain the problem or you are unable to understand. "About a minute" is insanely fast. It should be about 5 minutes. "Added {{tilde}} note" is no precise description of the change. "{{tilde}}" is not a note. It's a template. Either the bot "added a substituted copy of the tilde note template" or it "added a note about signing your posts". If you want to let the users know where the template can be found use a link in "Added a copy of the tilde note template". --TMg 14:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, well, as fun as this has been, I'm gonna have to wrap it up with the following: you're welcome to make your own bot if you believe you can do better. Best of wishes on your endeavours. =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Turkish people

Hi Slakr, thank you for noticing the current edit war on Turkish people (per your message on my user page). I must say that I am extremely saddend by the recent events. I actually believe that I am being stalked by a particular user who has been blocked on numerous occassion (i.e. User:Ledenierhomme). Whenever I begin the task of trying to improve an article relating to the Turks, this user always does the same tricks (you can see this in this histories of Iraqi Turkmens, Turks in Algeria, and well, many more). Although I am not certain whether this anon is User:Ledenierhomme, they are rewriting sentences which do not confirm what the sources actually say. I do not want to shout out "sockpuppet!" or "vandaliser" because obviously they may indeed be a genuine user and thus I want to assume good faith. Nonetheless, the current events have made it difficult for me to continue improving this article as I am continuously being reverted. I would really appreciate any help that you can offer. If you really think that I deserve a block for changing the Turkish people article from this (i.e. prior to me editing the article) to this (i.e. my last edit to the article) then wikipedia would be losing a user who sincerly cares about these articles and actually tries their best to edit truthlly using a range of citations.Turco85 (Talk) 22:46, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, I urge you to please look at the edit which this anon is continuously placing the article to [13]; one does not have to be an expert on this subject to see that they are trying to remove any mention of the Seljuk Turks. There is no justification for such an edit, especially when we have academic citations mentioning the Seljuk Turks and their link to today's Turkish people. Anyway, I don't want to lecture you, but I hope that you will be able to see how fustrating this has become. Turco85 (Talk) 23:06, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, look at the Wikipedia article on the Seljuq dynasty - which makes it perfectly clear that the dynasty was "Turco-Persian". And yet you want to remove any reference at all to the Seljuqs being Persianized, and try and trick the reader by switching between "Seljuk Turks" and "the Turks", trying to fool people into believing that the ancient Seljuqs and today's Anatolians are one and the same thing. That's like saying the Goths or Vandals are exactly the same as today's Germans. They're not. 31.146.35.112 (talk) 08:57, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Omigod, I just looked at the two articles you mentioned up there "Iraqi Turkmens, Turks in Algeria". LOL. You really are out of control! Slakr, can you see what this user has done to these two articles - and probably every other article he's ever edited on? Totally ridiculous POV. Those people in Iraq and Algeria with partial Turkish ancestry are not "Turks" (they don't speak Turkish or call themselves Turkish), any more than those in Turkey with partial Greek ancestry are "Greeks" (they don't speak Greek or call themselves Greek)! What a mess you've made! 31.146.35.112 (talk) 09:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ProcseeBot and IPv6

Are you going to update ProcseeBot to start blocking IPv6 proxies? You'll have to be careful, though, because I believe legitimate, closed, proxies are used more with IPv6.--Jasper Deng (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Furthermore, the only proxies the bot blocks (or will ever block) are those it can personally verify as being publicly usable (i.e., truly open proxies). --slakr^\ talk / 20:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Opt out a single section of a talk page?

Slakr, would it be possible to add a feature to SineBot to turn off auto-signing in a single section of a talk page? That would be very helpful here. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 13:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Participation in a discussion

You are invited to participate in this discussion. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 04:54, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lower Metzenseifen

Hello Slakr,

Thank you for temporarily protecting Lower Metzenseifen. I have made a proposal for the other person who has been tampering with the site. I suggested moving information from the Lower Metzenseifen site to a new site called Metzenseifen and redirecting the Medzev site to Metzenseifen. Would you please have a look at my proposal and give me your best opinion? Although this site is very important to me, because I see the value of it for the many Americans in Cleveland, Ohio who stem from Metzenseifen, I would like to have a non-bias prone person review the facts. Agentxp22 (talk) 23:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

talk page of Nayef bin Abdulaziz

Why did not you delete the last input put on this page? Instead, you added something. I cannot understand. Is it OK for a Wikipedia bot to allow such expressions on talk pages? Egeymi (talk) 11:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Please restore the sourced information I added to these pages, a user with several IP adresses keeps removing it for no apperant reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saadat_Ali_Khan_II&oldid=497778992

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&oldid=497778766

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awadh&oldid=497779074

MATF55 (talk) 15:48, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And you edit warred with users over keeping your text (e.g. Persian ethnicity, Persian ethnicity again) across several articles. Someone disagreeing with the content you've introduced is not an valid reason to edit war, and simply adding a citation to a statement in no way gives it any protection from removal or disagreement. Consider dispute resolution to gain consensus for controversial changes. --slakr^\ talk / 21:39, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

First of all my source clearly states that their ethnicity is Persian, secondly my source is an academic source, they removed it unjustly.

MATF55 (talk) 20:29, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well deserved

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For your incredible work detecting and eradicating the socks of Ryanjay1996 and for following-up and cleaning the K-pop articles of all the unsourced mess. Thank you for caring and also for taking the time. With great respect. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 04:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bot code

Hi dear Slakr ,

I want Bot code for adding {{Unsigned}}, {{UnsignedIP}}, and {{Undated}} in talk pages , to run it in fa.wiki.if it possible .Regards Javad Yousefi^Talk 07:52, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Slakr. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval.
Message added 23:48, 22 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Ryan Vesey Review me! 23:48, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmation bias

Anyone who uses that term in one of my RFCs gets extra credit, especially if you explain it to the class :) (I normally geek out and discuss terms like that myself, but since it appears I'll be closing, I have to maintain a little decorum.) - Dank (push to talk) 03:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[Sinebot] Please ignore...

Hi, I was modifying some talk pages in the last weeks and recognized that Sinebot signed some messages by me. Mostly I should have remember that, but User talk pages of JS files acting as documentation pages I missed to place {{bots}}, but the real problem was the subpages containing /header which should be ignored by default, see diff. Regards, mabdul 15:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot modified text of post

Hi Slakr! here not only the signature was added, but the text of the post was modified as well (‘types’ → ‘type’). The IP wasn't aware that a bot was working and thought that a human changed his text but did not edit the article as he demanded it his OP. Therefore he reverted the typo introduced by SineBot in his OP and made this post. Alfie ↑↓© 10:25, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your Toolserver Account

It expired! Can you please renew it.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 13:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you're not going to be renewing it soon, we should remove the link to the 3RR helper tool from the EWN header. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:41, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Or have someone else run the tool.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 00:52, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've been out of town for the last week+. I'll deal with this somehow. --slakr^\ talk / 07:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, much better. Thanks! :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:50, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it has expired again. ✍ Mtking ✉ 07:45, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of article to which you have contributed

A few days ago I was informed that the article Metrication of British transport was being considered for deletion. As you have made at least one contribution to this article or to its Talk page, you might like to contribute to the debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metrication of British transport. I have sent this note to everybody whose name was thrown up by the "Contributions" facility of the article and of its Talk Page (apart from those who have already contributed).

SineBot signed something after I had signed

Hi, only so that you know. Here is the diff.[14].Best, --Caleb Crabb 08:38, 13 July 2012 (UTC) (And I did sign here too ! just in case the zealous bot reads this.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caleb Crabb (talk • contribs) [reply]

Appears to have happened again: here Maybe it has to do with Caleb's signature code? ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Talk to me} 17:10, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The sig link is messed up; it's "User talk :Caleb Crabb" (note the whitespace). There's lots more wrong with it unrelated to my bot, (including things like style="face:courrier" and style="red-space:nowrap"), but I guess I could add a \s* to the sig regex...but really, it'd just probably be easier for Caleb to fix his signature to use the actual namespace and omit the space. :P --slakr^\ talk / 03:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, I did. Sorry to have kept Sinebot and you -and Mattewrbowker- busy with that. Thanks. Best.--Caleb Crabb 11:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~

Thanks for the info. I'm new at posting. Robinrobin (talk) 19:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~

Bot broke title somehow, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Internet_Explorer_9&action=history 94.192.118.154 (talk)

It's also edit conflicting if I forget to sign and then try to sign.94.192.118.154 (talk)

Roger Federer "widely considered to be the greatest player of all time" dispute

Hi Slakr. Could you please read this talk page discussion on Roger Federer and reply to it with your opinion? It's all about one matter. Is the statement that Federer is "widely considered to be the greatest player of all time" appropriate on Wikipedia? Or does it violate WP:WEASEL and other guidelines? It is in the opening sentence of the article. Thank you. --76.189.114.243 (talk) 12:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Roger Federer - someone reverted your revert

Hi again Slakr. Thanks for replying to the discussion on the Federer talk page. I replied to your reply. I really hope you'll give your opinion on the issue. Anyway, I'm writing because User:TennisAnalyst004 reverted the revert you did. He did this and then this. Can you please take care of this? Thanks! --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC) 21:37[reply]

Update: He wrote on the Federer talk page: "Earlier, Slakr deleted the "greatest of all time" reference with its many footnotes before coming to the talk page and soliciting others' views. The first paragraph should remain as is until other senior Wikipedia editors & contributors can weigh in on the matter." Apparently, he chose to ignore your edit comment: "revert lead to pre-POV version; move; make more NPOV / less-weasely." This guy has been battling editors for a long time on this article. --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed and have updated the talk page thread accordingly. --slakr^\ talk / 21:46, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Are you going to revert his revert? --76.189.114.243 (talk) 21:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No; other people will eventually do that as consensus is established. I don't engage in edit wars, and had I noticed that others had previously edit warred on the page, I wouldn't have even gotten involved. --slakr^\ talk / 22:11, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But an editor who is disrgarding WP guidelines reverted your (an administrator's) revert and ignored your reasoning and instructions. He should not be able to get away with that while there is a consenus-building discussion taking place. If that was the case, I would have just reverted the weasly sentence from the beginning. But I chose to do it the right way by starting a talk page discussion. Can you please revert the revert until we reach a consensus? Clearly, the wording now violates WP policy. And it's in the opening sentence, which makes it much worse. Thanks, Slakr. :) --76.189.114.243 (talk) 22:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Slakr, this "user," 76.189.114.243, shows up out of the blue one day and just expects that an important line in the Federer article can be deleted just like that? There have been many months of discussion about the "greatest of all time" line, and most people on the talk page believe the line should stand. I am suspicious of this user, and believe his motives are less than pure. And just so you know, I have participated on the talk page on many occasions in the past, unlike this user 76. Thanks for considering my input. TennisAnalyst004 (talk) 22:36, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you vote on the issue on the Federer talk page? The proposed version uses "many" and mine uses "some" because I think we need to steer clear of being weasely. :) --76.189.114.243 (talk) 08:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fahrenheit 212

Hello Slakr,

I created an article for Fahrenheit 212. I see that in the past you deleted an article with that name for not being neutral. I would love your feedback on the neutrality of the article, as it is today.

Sincerely,

Matan (talk) 12:34, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot wibble

Hi Slakr, SineBot should have added the timestamp of the comment in this edit. It probably didn't do so because the comment contained the text "02:14, 25 July 2012 ...". Graham87 02:26, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will I be the contributor ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tim_Cook#Career_section

I want to edit the Tim Cook's page. I have started discussion in tim cooks talk page."Where to put this information(In Tim Cook's biography or in Apple Inc's page) : On July 24th 2012 with a conference call with investors , Tim Cook said that he loves India but Apple is going to expect larger opportunities outside india , citing the reason of 30% sourcing requirement from india."

I want to know , will I get the credit if this edit goes to tim cook's page or other editors will get it.The thread has been started by me. Many editors removed my edit , so I shared it on tim cooks talk page.

Please suggest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winchetan (talk • contribs) 04:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	You've probably had hundreds if not thousands of people tell you, but SineBot is one of the most useful bots on WP, particularly for those dealing with newcomers or new articles. Ritchie333 (talk) 12:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sinebot

Hello, i'm here to report that your bot is signing my messages even after i wrote my signature. So there must be an error... You'll see an example in your talk page in a few minutes. :D If you have to, please answer in my talk page on it.wiki, which you can reach by passing on my talk page on en.wiki. Thankk you. Bye. AndreaFox ^{Knock here...} 14:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreaFox (talk • contribs)

(talk page stalker) It looks like you copied your signature from itwiki without correcting the links. On the English Wikipedia, you must use User:AndreaFox and User talk:AndreaFox to link to your userpage and talk page. Since SineBot didn't see either of those links in your signature, it treated it as unsigned. The links you do have, Utente:AndreaFox and Discussioni utente:AndreaFox, are going to oddly-named pages in the article namespace. Anomie ⚔ 18:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Riposte

Yet another dictator telling English people how to spell and use our language! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felipito1.966 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Register

I signed up for this. Thanks Simbaha2 (talk • contribs) —Preceding undated comment added 14:19, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks, Slakr, for using Sinebot to sign my comment. I'm only on sporadically so still learning how to work with Wikipedia. Fiona Marissa 21:23, 3 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fionaussie (talk • contribs)

The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.

In this issue:

Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
Research: The most recent DR data
Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

Read the entire first edition of The Olive Branch -->

--The Olive Branch 19:30, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

I would like to put this back in an article.

I edited the biography article about Phil Mickelson, and the bot you created, (SineBot), took out the video I put in about Mickelson shooting a marvelus shot out of the trees. I feel that the video should have stayed there. If you feel it should be there, please put it back. I would like it back. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.125.113.116 (talk) 03:54, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Signbot

Signbot occasionally autosigns edits I have signed, such as here. Is there something I can do to help prevent this?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:44, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) You're not supposed to transclude your signature ... that's probably causing a problem dangerous panda 11:37, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Believe fixed, at least from my perspective.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:41, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot at AIV

In this diff SineBot signed the example template with its own signature as well as the editor's report. I know this may be a one-off, but it may be problematic if SineBot does it again. A boat that can float! (watch me float!) 16:55, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse my piggybacking, but here SineBot did something very similar.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:21, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When ~~~~ isn't being expanded, for whatever reason, the page is the problem--not the bot. There was likely an unclosed template within the section. --slakr^\ talk / 04:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That’s quite plausible in the case I observed: the non-signing editor didn’t seem to understand the syntax of the example template or its comment-tags.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 22:26, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oops...now signing edit notices?

This is a first for me dangerous panda 11:35, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add an exception when I get a chance. For now, drop a {{nobots}} or similar on the page. --slakr^\ talk / 04:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	SineBot just signed a few of my talk page edits. I've been editing long enough that I should better, but I guess I forgot my frontal lobes. Thank you for creating SineBot. I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 03:16, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Free speech hypocrisy

You believe in free speech, but your bot (therefore you) delete items on talk pages that don't conform to your personal beliefs. How liberal of you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FlounderPants (talk • contribs) 02:21, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) How the heck does a bot do that!? A boat that can float! (watch me float!) 11:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was a case of mistaken identity... the culprit was User:Moxy, not User:SineBot.
Here is the sinebot action that FlounderPants might be thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Omar_Khadr&diff=next&oldid=515868720
Shortly afterwards, here is Moxy quote 'cleaning up rants' unquote (none of these were rants that I could see) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Omar_Khadr&diff=next&oldid=515868876 Moxy made an attempt at grouping some paragraphs about an apparently-controversially-chosen BLP photo into a distinct talkpage section. However, along the way, they accidentally screwed up, and deleted one of the comments (the one saying "He is a 26 year old man").
They also deleted a talkpage comment by FlounderPants a short while later (edit-comment 'remove POV rant') https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Omar_Khadr&diff=next&oldid=515869043 This was the comment made by flounderpants, and auto-signatured by sinebot. It was about citizenship issues, and although racist and rude, it was an opinion on a talkpage, and should not have been removed by anybody, if I understand wikipedia policy ("extremely unpopular opinions not disruptive" paraphrasing). There were at least four other editors arguing the citizenship question on the same talkpage, so the comment by FlounderPants could have been moved, like the others but Moxy instead just wiped it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Omar_Khadr&diff=next&oldid=515869354 Moxy answered the photograph-related question as wikipedia-has-no-more-recent-photo, and Flounder replied, suggesting getting one from googling (presumably on fair use grounds)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Omar_Khadr&diff=next&oldid=516485564 KL7 came to the rescue, reverting all Moxy's deletions (without any mistakes that I can see), and answered Flounder that licensing was what prevented use of an image found by googling. (I will post a comment suggesting that fair use prolly applies. Or maybe court docs in the public domain?) Nobody ever responded to Flounder's citizenship rant (not counting Moxy singling it out for deletion), as far as I can see... but Flounder had left by this point, and missed KL7's save, mistakenly blaming SineBot for the comment-deletion, rather than Moxy.
I will try my hand at explaining to FlounderPants what went down. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 20:21, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Signbot claiming comments are unsigned

Hi Slakr, I got a comment saying I haven't been signing my comments, which I think has come from a comment I posted using a user talk namespace template on User talk:99.224.63.170. These templates seem to carry my name as part of the message, should I be signing them at the end as well ? Yorkshiresoul (talk) 22:45, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW I think so: the user-name in the template message does not include the date & time of posting or the talk-page link.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:23, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Open-Sourcing your Bot?

You say repeatedly that you bot is not OS, but would you mind opening it? I would like to have SineBot patrol WikiBooks, where I generally operate. I would really like not re-inventing the wheel, and would very much appreciate it if this were opened.

If you have any concerns or questions regarding opening source code I can help, and if you would prefer that your code should not be OS, perhaps you could email it to me? Hethrir (talk) 23:09, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I, too, would appreciate if the source code was opened. --Jackson Peebles (talk) 19:12, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

hi my name is Brianna I am 17 and single and I live in Walters,Oklahoma i would love to talk to you.Bratanna95(talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bratanna95 (talk • contribs) 18:47, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hi my name is Brianna and i am trying to figure out how to talk to people.----Bratanna95(talk)

hi how are you today user talk:Slakr I hope you are good well talk to you later.Bratanna95(talk)November8,2012 8:47a.m — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bratanna95 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked?

You blocked me, i think that my ISP using squid proxy without my permission.So it's not my fault. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.235.171.144 (talk) 03:15, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not you personally, of course; mainly your ISP needs to limit the proxy so that people who aren't its customers can't use it. We don't have anything against proxies as a whole; it's only the ones that are "open" (i.e., are usable by literally anyone on the internet). That's basically the long and short of it; for, once they "close" the proxy to only those who are its customers, we'll be able to unblock it and all will be okay. =) --slakr^\ talk / 18:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Summer of Love

Reversions reverted again and reported again.

A) I am not new to Wikipedia I have been editing articles for over ten years now.

B) I am an accomplished music and entertainment author currently 72 years old and recently celebrated by 50th year in the field.

C) I find it effronterous to come back after working on a page for two days straight to find it all erased by people who were either A) not born when the events took place or B) not having been to either one or both as I have been.

D) Numerous administrative forums within Wikipedia state that any article heretofore deemed as dry and stodgy-sounding may be rewritten into a more `chatty' style in order to appeal to a wider audience.

The page in question has already been reported to the administration for Page Protection as well as under Edit Wars.

Further interference will also be reverted and reported as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.182.86 (talk) 01:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot should not sign RfA questions

See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/MONGO 3, Questions 5 and 6, for example. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:43, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We don't understand

THANKYOU BUT WE DONT UNDERSTAND, WE ARE DRIVING BACK HOME TO GO TO BED, GOOD NIGHT MAY THE SPIRIT BE GUILD TO YOU IN TIME OF TROUBLE SARAH BUNGARRA — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koodamunda (talk • contribs) 13:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken the liberty of adding a heading to this message. See my response at the user's talk page. Graham87 14:34, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Personal Fable

I found the article very interesting up to the last paragraph. It had extensive problems with grammar and clarity of meaning. 75.28.130.139 (talk) 00:47, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Leonard Oprea: Thank you.

God bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmygodohmylord (talk • contribs) 03:19, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

smashed gladys sally cato

You just sent me a note saying I have to sign a change. I DID! SallyCato 14:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sallycato (talk • contribs)

Erroneous SineBot warnings/notices

I just, for whatever it's worth, posted this...

Erroneous SineBot warnings/notices

Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) 05:35, 11 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deselms (talk • contribs) ← Look! It just did it again, after I edited the link, above!

Suggestions for sine bot

SineBot warns you if you have your Wikipedia name in your sig but it does not link to your user page.
SineBot warns you if you have a time but not a username in your sig.
SineBot warns you if you have a link to userpage but not a time in your sig

IanMurrayWeb (talk) 06:05, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot on Arabic Wikipedia

Hi Slakr , I am very interested in the SineBot , can you please get it work on Arabic Wikipedia or hep me to make a bot make the signature task on the Arabic Wikipedia --Mohamed Ouda (talk) 15:00, 27 December 2012 (UTC) .[reply]

Unneeded signature by SineBot (talk · contribs)

See [15]. MadGuy7023 (talk) 21:34, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot using incorrect template

Hello, in this edit, SineBot dated a comment when it should have signed it as well. I presume this occurred because there was a link to the talk page in the user's message, and SineBot thought it was part of a signature. Graham87 15:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto with this edit at ANI, which incorrectly signed a message that contained a few links to user and user talk pages. Graham87 06:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot

Hi dear Slakr

I am user:Elph one of sysops an CUs in ar.wiki. We need to run your bot in our Wikipedia. We have to choices for you.

you run your bot by yourself
give us the code of the bot

In both choices we appreciate you.--Abbas 08:48, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On being warned for vandalism116.202.144.148 (talk) 15:24, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Slakr, I've been warned for vandalism three times for my edits on the article 'Kochi'. I'm contesting these warnings. To quote the first paragraph :

"The city of Kochi (pop. 601,574) is the most densely populated city in the state and is part of an extended metropolitan region (pop. 2.1 million), which is the largest urban agglomeration in Kerala. Kochi city is also a part of Greater Cochin region[6][7] and is classified as a B-1 grade city[8] by the Government of India, making it the highest graded city in the state".

I had also checked the discussions Talk:Kochi, India and found that the consensus was that the article is about the city not the UA. From this it is pretty clear that the article is about the Kochi and not about the Kochi UA or the metropolitan area. Some of the information added in the page are for the UA of Kochi, and should be entered in the Kochi metropolitan area. Quoting from the page Kochi metropolitan area,

"This article is about the urban agglomeration of Kochi. For the city of Kochi, see Kochi ". And again,

"The Urban Agglomeration (UA) of Kochi (Malayalam: കൊച്ചി [Kocci]; formerly known as Cochin) is a part of the Greater Cochin region and the largest urban agglomeration in the Indian state of Kerala."

So I hope it might be clear to you by now, which is the page on the Urban Agglomeration and which is the page on the city. I merely removed these irrelevant information's from the page. Aluva is a separate municipality from Kochi and a part of the metropolitan area but it is not part of the Kochi city which has a population of 601,574. So please allow me to remove these irrelevant information from the page.

Need help to restore Ametek Inc wikipedia page

Hi,

Could you please help me to restore the Ametek Inc Wikipedia page ? link : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ametek&action=edit&redlink=1

I used some contents of the Reuters site to modify the Wikipedia page (but I gave the site reference to Reuters as well). Is it possible to revert the changes and restore the Ametek Inc wikipedia page to a previous version where the text from Reuters was not added. Your help is appreciated. Shyamutty (talk) 18:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Need block User:DrDrake100

Hi, sorry for interrupt, User:DrDrake100 changed unsourced music genres (actually it's a music style), such as David Bowie's 1999 album 'Hours...' and 2002 album Heathen, both actually are rock music albums. He accidently added styles as genres in other infobox, such as art rock and experimental rock, which are unsourced genres.

Anyway, block him with no expiry set (unlimited).

P.S. If somebody needs unblock him, just don't unblock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lordofpyrus (talk • contribs) 09:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Could you back me up?

Hello Slakr. I found out about you through your SineBot, and I've come to look up to you as an admin. You have a great sense of humor, but i digress.

I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, and I recently worked with a music artist to make his Wikipedia page. We had a few issues at first, but I've cleaned them up to the best of my abilities. I worked hard to create the page, and to make it informative and presentable. Recently, I saw a message on the page that nearly gave me a heart attack. The page was nominated for deletion, because a respectable user claimed that it did not meet any of the notability requirements. I've posted paragraphs upon paragraphs of information on the discussion page, with links, references, and the like. from what I understand, I'm right in my claim that the page is well within the guidelines, but my skill at reading fine print is rather... well, below average, I suppose. I don't know of any Wiki-Admins that i feel are worthy of putting my trust in (and apparently, the devs will eat me alive through my computer screen), but you seem to be quite different. I kindly request that you give the page and the discussion a look-over, and tell me if I'm working for a lost cause, or if I have nothing to worry about. If this is a waste of your time, then please, skip it. I hate to be a hassle.

Wikipedia Page: Marcus D - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_D

AfD Discussion page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Marcus_D

Me - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaoskitteh

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Seriously, Kaoskitteh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaoskitteh (talk • contribs) 17:33, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I need the deleted "Pac In Time transcript" page for a project by me on my User:1 Fans Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.213.156 (talk) 00:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Pac In Time transcript

I need it for use on my own wiki. Nolifescarletqueen (talk) 23:18, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot on Commons

Could you run SineBot on Commons? Mono 04:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot does not catch everything?

I really like the bot, but I note it doesn't catch everything, even on my talk page (just recently a bunch of first-time editors posted there, many didn't sign, most but not all got SineBot reminder). Why is this the case? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:27, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FYI here a weird human behaviour the bot wasn't able to manage, see ya! --Vituzzu (talk) 22:07, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sinebot thinks my signature is undated

My signature uses a timestamp conforming to RFC 3339, but sinebot incorrectly thinks it's undated. Until this is fixed, I'm opting out. For example, this comment is signed and dated but look what sinebot does... —James Haigh (talk) 2013-03-13T19:17:59Z —Preceding undated comment added 19:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Commons wants SineBot

See here. – JBarta (talk) 03:02, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot too fast?

SineBot makes its edits within about a minute. Many times the edit that was not signed is vandalism. When someone wants to revert it, and they can only undo one edit at a time if they do not have rollback rights, it's the SineBot edit that gets reverted, not the vandalism. Then they have to click undo a second time. Is there any downside to making it run a little slower, like hours instead of minutes? BollyJeff | talk 20:29, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Worse then that, rollback doesn't work if the edits aren't consecutive, by the same user (I would support a 5-10 minute lag on the bot). Regards, Crazynas^t 05:51, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

3rr.php script not working. Toolserver account is expired

Please see http://toolserver.org/~slakr/3rr.php. Help! Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 21:31, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for not seeing this sooner; I'll drop them a note and see if they can renew it for me. --slakr^\ talk / 19:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Back up again. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 19:04, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

German Wiki - Whistleblow...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Word2013#GERMAN_WIKI_BANNED_ME.2C_WHY.3F me banned for telling the truth --Patient (talk) 02:41, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot bug with signature --~~~~

I usually sign my talk page contributions with --~~~~ following the recommendations of de.WP. This works perfectly well on en.WP too, but SineBot doesn’t recognize my signature and keeps adding a second signature (one without a time stamp) claiming that what I wrote was unsigned. Could you please re-program SineBot so that it can handle what other WPs recommend? (Hint: no whitespace is required before ~~~~ .) --LiliCharlie 13:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

This is easy: add a link to your talk page (or your user page) and the bot won't add unsigned. I already recognized your signature and was really confused that there is nothing to click... mabdul 06:45, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sinebot error

Hi Slark, just letting you know about a Sinebot error here, in case it's helpful. I restored a couple of comments that someone else had removed, and Sinebot added my sig to the final (signed) post that was not from me. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 01:55, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edits not signed when a new page is created

I notice this quite often when tagging a file for problems. If the editor complains at the talk page and the talk page doesn't exist yet, then SineBot won't sign the edit. See File talk:Main-Radweg Map.jpg for example. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot at Scratchpad

Hi Slakr! I admin a wiki over at Wikia called Scratchpad (wikia:scratchpad). In the Wikia context, it’s a large wiki with lots of daily edits. Sadly, more talkpage edits are unsigned than signed. I’ve always been impressed with the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of the SineBot here at WP. I was wondering if it would be possible to adapt it for use on the Scratchpad wiki at Wikia? Thanks! — Spike Toronto 05:44, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bump! — Spike Toronto 03:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really sorry for bothering you about this, Slakr.

I'm really sorry for bothering you, Slakr, as this is not what I want to do, but this Robert McClendon keeps trolling me. I've long moved on from this Rebecca Hall show business phoniness rant business that I got stuck in but he is still directing me to it. I just stated that in defense of previous users edits that his British show business friends need to show proof before they state facts and apparently he doesn't have any real proof other than to want to sell her to me. If I had the money I'd probably consider it, but this is silly and I've moved on to other Wikipedia entries and suggested to him to do the same. How should I handle this? Again, I'm terribly sorry for having to bother you about this. Thanks again, Slakr.

I tried writing Mlpearc about this because he has been helpful but I'm not sure if I got through to him this last time.

I've moved onto more interesting subjects like video servers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VALID REALITY (talk • contribs) 01:12, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good Work

I never signed posts, because I thought IP address were not soposed to do it. I thought it gave people accses to your pc. Your bot helped a lot. Keep up the good work!

99.140.198.164 (talk) 23:36, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:ProcseeBot and bugzilla:48323

Hello, I see that ProcseeBot keeps itself always very busy. :) XFF blocks have been enabled 4 days ago, can you tell how much this helped against proxies? Also, does your bot check for existing global blocks? --Nemo 07:24, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

XFF is for non-anonymizing proxies (i.e., those that include an accurate XFF header or reveal in some other way the true host using it). The bot, however, doesn't care--it only cares whether the proxy is open--and it uses lists from numerous websites that both include anonymizing and non-anonymizing proxies. It does not check for global blocks; I think those, as a MW feature, were implemented some time after I wrote it. --slakr^\ talk / 19:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot's duplicate

I get the same message again on SineBot. How could this be? — Preceding unsigned comment added by QM400032 (talk • contribs) 03:11, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Flag

Hi there. SlakrBot is blocked and inactive, as a result its bot flag will soon be removed to try and tidy up our list of accounts with bot flags. If you have any problems get in touch with me on my talk page! ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:46, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Check for whatever BRFA I originally filed regarding it. It's basically used to access the api at increased query limits (e.g., 5000 as opposed to 500 per request), as api limits aren't affected by blocks, and it has no intention to edit. That said, I'm not 100% certain where it's being used and don't have the time to research it at the moment, so if you think it's essential to zap the flag, just be prepared to receive any fallout (if any). :P --slakr^\ talk / 19:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please block User:Easy4me

Hi, please block User:Easy4me with an expiry time of indefinite, because the user did vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.177.11 (talk) 04:02, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot

Hello Slakr, I'm Saqib from Wikivoyage. We need a sign bot same as you operate current on our wiki. are you kind enough to let me know how can we create one same as yours? regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.110.140.246 (talk) 14:45, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot down

Hey Slakr, it looks like SineBot (talk · contribs) is currently down, or possibly having problems with the recent VisualEditor rollout. It hasn't edited in nearly three days. No rush; I realize your availability is spotty at the moment, but I thought you'd want a heads up on this. Take care. --Bongwarrior (talk) 22:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, wasn't paying attention. Apparently the server it's on was moved to a different rack in the middle of the night on July 2 and I didn't notice till now. Back up now. =) --slakr^\ talk / 21:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No need to apologize, thanks a lot. --Bongwarrior (talk) 22:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OMG again someone who wants SineBot

Did you ever consider running SineBot at Commons? Wikikemdia Commons is also an awesome project. We have our custom way for dispute resolution for example. Thanks in advance. -- Rillke (talk) 11:29, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly. Hopefully I'll be a little bit more active soon. Life's been quite busy. :\ --slakr^\ talk / 22:18, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flag @ ruwiki

Please sign the request [16]. --Obersachse (talk) 17:47, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't actually submit this, nor am I the one running it (I only run the one here on enwiki). --slakr^\ talk / 22:17, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SineBot does not work right

SineBot is always chasing me around telling me to sign my posts; however, I always sign my post, without fail. Your little program just can't read my signature. So what I do is I sign, as normal, and then SineBot incorrectly signs for me, and then I sign again after SineBot makes is incorrect and annoying mistake. I am going to sign this comment and I'm sure we will have a perfect example of SineBot ignorance.--Bing Norton 14:07, 23 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BingNorton (talk • contribs) --Bing Norton 14:13, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now as you can see from this comment. SineBot came along after I clearly signed the comment and stated, incorrectly, that I did not sign the comment. I am going to sign this comment also because I ALWAYS sign my comments.--Bing Norton 14:13, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Your signature lacks an actual link back to your user or user talk page. This is covered in the FAQ at the top of this page ("I'm signing with four tildes (~~~~) but it's still saying I didn't!"). --slakr^\ talk / 22:16, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Check article

Can you check my article? Article's name is Veron (Software). Is this article satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines ? Faisal6545 (talk) 18:58, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) I've taken care of this (posted on multiple users' talk pages including my own). Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:14, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not bite the newcomers says Jimbo Wales. Wikipedia and WikiNews Needs to Expand. Thanks :)

Wikipedia articles are improved through the hard work of regular editors, but also through numerous contributions made by newcomers. Remember: all of us were new editors at Wikipedia once, and in some ways (such as when editing an article on a topic outside our usual scope) even the most experienced among us are still newcomers.

New members are prospective contributors and are therefore Wikipedia's most valuable resource. We must treat newcomers with kindness and patience—nothing scares potentially valuable contributors away faster than hostility. It is very unlikely for a newcomer to be completely familiar with all of the policies, guidelines, and community standards of Wikipedia when they start editing. Even the most experienced editors may need a gentle reminder from time to time. Many Thanks buddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sou Boyy (talk • contribs) 18:16, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

LOL... not exactly sure where that came from, since I haven't even been active for like a month, but I'll try to keep that in mind—so long as you're ok with not templating the regulars. ;) For what it's worth, you might be interested in a related article that I've incidentally made edits to in the past: Wikipedia:Do NOT bite the developers. :P --slakr^\ talk / 22:12, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sinebot signed my modification to my comment

Sine bot signed that diff

I don't about your source code, but it seems there is a bug. It seems that Sinebot doesn't care about viewing "Update" on the beginning of a new line with the same number of (":") that the precedent had edited by the same user. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 21:27, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Update: I forget to say I would like to discuss certain points because I have some questions related to Sinebot algorithm. This is for working around some user messages. I would like to see you irc.freenode.net. I use the ytrezq nick and the ytreq nick when it don't work or if you prefer you can +i me on your channel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 21:47, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's working as intended. That comment did need to be signed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:48, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok but there are other which I would like to discuss, and I am thinking only Slackr has the answers. 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 22:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Jillian Michaels Page

I have tried changing Jillians info before and it would not be accepted. According to wikipedia Jillian was born on Feb 18, 1974 in Califonia to a mother named Joann McKarus. Here is info I found on Ancestry.com. According to ancestry.com California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Jillian L Mckarus was born on 18 Feb 1974 in Los Angeles County to a mother with the maiden name Saldi. On ancestry.com California Divorce Index 1966-1984 Douglas G Mckarus divorced Joann Saldi in March 1977 in Los Angeles County. Also on ancestry.com Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005 Jillian Leigh McKarus of California married David William Ross of California on 13 Jul 2002 in Clark County. On ancestry.com Nevada Divorce Index 1968-2005 Jillian L McKarus divorced David W Ross on 5 May 2003 in Clark County. So Jillian Michaels was born as Jillian Leigh McKarus to Douglas G. McKarus and Joann Saldi on Feb 18, 1974 in Los Angeles County, California. She married a man named David William Ross on July 13, 2002 in Clark County, Nevada and divorced him on May 5th, 2003. Can this all please be added to Wikipedia now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.117.162.101 (talk) 16:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for Deletion: Phil Fischer

According to Special:Log?page=Phil_fischer, you speedy-deleted Phil fischer, so I'm notifying you that Phil Fischer has been nominated for deletion via AfD. Your original deletion reason has been identified as a potential deletion reason for the nominated article. —Zenexer [talk] 09:50, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Open proxy bot

Hi, could you perhaps run your bot on old indef blocked IPs on en.wikipedia? I am curious to see how many would be marked by your bot which can then be perhaps globally blocked. Also please consider participating in the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive254#Too many indef blocked IPs. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 14:58, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Satpal Maharaj

Hi your SineBot has undone my modifications around Satpal maharaj article. Don't know who wrote this article in a wave to bring all negatives which is against the NPOV and this article follows an approach of NR around Satpal Maharaj. There is mentioning that he lost election in 2004 whereas he did not fight any election in 2004 it was TPS Rawat who fought election in 2004 from Congress Ticket and Lost to BC Khanduri later on in next elections he(TPS Rawat) joined BJP and defeated Satpal Maharaj. Strange seems people don't study well while contributing to wikipedia or they have some other intentions. I feel this comunity pertains to people with full knowldge and research well but I found it otherwise while going this article.<http://www.rediff.com/election/2004/may/10utt.htm> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinay4454 (talk • contribs) 20:53, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]